I added a comment, and in the hour or so since, got two positive and zero negative replies.

Unstated in all this bike lane discussion is that bikes already have a bike lane, everywhere. It’s called the driving lane. As a driver, if there’s a cyclist in front of you, you patiently follow said cyclist in that lane. You will have no expectation of even attaining the speed limit, so get over it. Every other thing slowing you down, you just accept – garbage trucks, geese, someone parallel parking, someone with a forklift unloading a truck, pedestrian crossing, whatever – and you accept that. But a bike appears, and people go bonkers. Stop it. On most city streets, and many residential streets outside the city, it’s 25 mph. Expect to go 25, tops, and the cyclist toodling along at 15 will be of no consequence. Besides, state law gives you explicit permission to cross the yellow line to pass a cyclist if visibly safe to, same as if you were driving around a downed tree branch. Just be nice while you’re doing that if you feel it necessary, and continue on your way. Is that really all that difficult to accept?

Anyone know anything about this trail? I think I drive along it when driving up 28 to Brookville. At least I can see a trail along the eastern side of the road for part of the trip… maybe around Redbank?

A few days ago I tweeted to pgh311 that they should have no parking/no stopping/no loading signs on the Penn Ave cycle track. This thought occured to me last Saturday morning when a paragon food truck was well in the lane, completely encased with bollards, delivering to a restaurant at 630 am. The driver told me he had”15 min to unload.”. Pgh311 tweeted back that they passed this idea onto the parking authority.

32 yo record label manager who just moved to Troy Hill complaining about gentrification is like the SOV driver stuck in traffic complaining about congestion. You’re not in traffic, you are traffic. Find a better perspective.

The absolutely worst thing that can happen is like in 2015, when two challengers split the dissenting vote and Harris walked in with a plurality.

It’s worth remembering at this point the genesis of crosstown boulevard, which severed the connection between the Hill District and Downtown, leading to the eventual destruction of a vital center of Aftrican-American culture. A while ago I looked up Robert Moses’s 1939 “Arterial Plan for Pittsburgh” in the Pennsylvania section of the main Carnegie Library, and copied the pages at https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B0SsCVLENRv4NXowTGlMTHFqZUk. The crosstown boulevard plan was described as follows:
“A new thoroughfare free from crossings at grade should be built to connect Duquesne Way, Bigelow Boulevard and the Liberty Bridge, tapping the Boulevard of the Allies. Incidentally, this will wipe out a slum district which is no credit to Pittsburgh and which has a depressing effect on available surrounding property. The service roads should be separated from the central roadway by landscaped borders, which, while they will be necessarily comparatively narrow, will do much to improve the general appearance of the neighborhood.” (page 17)
This was well before the Civic Arena, which only confirmed the final destruction of the neighborhood. We are only now, 80 years later, undoing some of the damage caused by this destructive, racially motivated, road.

Is this trail going to connect to Millvale so that crossing the river twice, riding on railroad ballast, or climbing hills is no longer necessary for travel from Aspinwall, Sharpsburg, and Etna to the North Shore?